The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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II is said that whenever the wind blows stead
lily from the south on June 81 the following
| three months will be characterized by extreme
heat and frequent thunder showers, 1t blew
from the south on June y this year.
IT Is believed the tunnels of the Northern Pa
cific railroad in Montana, where caves have OBJ
! structed travel this winter, will never be safe
| until they are arched with solid masonry,
! winch VIII be an enormously expensive under
| taking.
THE rapidity with which a railroad builds up
a section Of country is demonstrated in the fact
that there are now eleven towns on the Los
! Angeles and San Gabriel Valley railroad in
| Southern California, not one of which existed
| three months ago
THE Utica OIich) Sentinel of recent date
contains the following card of thanks: "Loa
! Green tenders thanks to her Aunt Lerieh for
| nine yards of white and four yards of blue
| cheese CLOTH also one and half dozen buttons
| purchased in New York for her graduating
| dress
SOME TINE Sunday night thieves removed the
cornerstone of the new st. Johns Church at
Omaha thinking that there was a number of
valuable coins in the box But in this they
were fooled. The box was removed from the
| stone early in the evening and taken to the col
| lege for safety.
AN unruly fellow who was arrested in Boston
| escaped from his captor and sought hiding
! place in a narrow space between two dwellings,
where he was subsequently discovered so tightly
| wedged in that it was necessary to knock hole
| through the wall from one of the rooms in order
| to eXtricate him.
| THE State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
| which has been aSsiduously accommodating rebel
| lion and slavery literature for quarter of a
| century past, and which has the reputation of
! having one of the finest collections of the kind
| in the United States, has just issued catalogue
| of its treasures. This comprises 1917 titles
| OF books, pamphlets and manuscripts of every
| sort.
A CHA MONSTER has been sent to the St Louis
| Geological garden from Denver This monster
is fifteen-nch lizard that is found in the dark,
| deep, out-of-the way caves and canons Of Mon
| tana, and is different from almost every other
! animal known to the scientists, save the eyeess
| fish of the Mammoth Cave. 1t cannot live
| in the sunlight, and its breath is said to be
| deadly
| The following extract from recent legislative
| proceedings in the State of Missouri would in
/ dictate that statesmen out there are apt at rep
| artee: First member-I can furnish a hatful
| of opinions; yes, sir, batful because l do not
| think your hat is very large. cloud laughter
| and applause Second member-My hat may
not be very large, but it covers brains not mush.
| (Shrieks of laughter and uproarious applause.)
| SOUTH AFRICAN JURYMEN are not always very
wise. a girl was tried at the Riverside Circuit
| OouiI lOI administering POISON 10 tne ldiUlly
| which she served. The first verdict returned
| was murder. " Impossible said the Judge,
| mo one has been killed. The jury went
! back and returned a verdict of ''suicde." But
the girl is still alive!H expostulated the Judge.
] On this the jury gave it up and returned a YER
| dict of mot guilty"
THIS was the way a country blacksmith was
seen removing that portion of an ak handle that
| remained in the eye, the break being close to the
| iron. The wood could not be driven out and. as
! nails had been driven in at the end could not be
| bored out. He drove the bit of sharp edge into
| some moist earth and then built fire around
| the projecting part. The wood was soon charred
! so that it was easily removed The moist earth
so protected the tempered part of the AK that it
| sustained no injury.
WAGONS are daily passing through Cisco, Tex,
| from the east, laden with household plunder
and children. Two of them showed inscriptions
| on the wagon sheets in bold but rude letters,
| one of them bearing, TN God We Trusted,
| Went West and Got Busted" The other, with
| more sentiment, says, Last Fail We Came from
| Baekin Sack, Got Sorry, and Now go Rackin
Back" Each wagon coming from Arkansas is
| followed by large number of dogs yearlingS,
and colts, showing that the trip has been favor
able to the increase of live stock as well as chill
dren.
| THE Medical Society of Rhode Island is in
| formed by DR. Swarts, of Providence, as the re-
suit of the atter's study and experiments on
| of the faucet, that tine best of them can only
| cleanse the water of possible microbes, or dis
ease germs, for few hours after their first ap-
| plicatiOn; that after this time it is impossible
thoroughly to clean the filter, and it becomes a
| place of deposit and accumulation of the germs
themselves, which are liable to propagate at the
ordinary temperature of kitchens at very rapid
rate. Thus the filter is worse than none. He
concludes that the only safety in the matter of
water is to use that which is known to be pure,
or, if this cannot be known with certainty, to
hat has hanf1 lad and In1
with pure ice.
The ice bag for SeasckneSS is recommended
in general way by correspondent of the
Boston Transcript who made twenty-six round
trips or fifty-two tours, and was always seasick
until the last time he went His explanation of
the exception is: Il took rubber bag with me,
some twelve inches long and four inches wide,
with an iron clamp to close the mouth of the
bag, and filed it with small pieces of ice every
| morning (the steward brought me the ice in q
bowl, and applied it on the spine, at the base of
the brain, down between my shoulders, for say
half to three-quarterS of an hour; or rather |
lay on it, pressing it against the spine. This
will, no doubt, seem a very harsh treatment,
but, on the contrary, it has most soothing
effect, 50 that frequently fell asleep while
under it, and afterward felt braced up and
splendid for the day, enjoying every hour and
every meal. do not advise every one to use
this treatment; not at all, for my application
was given under medical advice"
PROGRESSIVE JAPAN, says a writer on the SUBJ
iect owns seventeen of the twenty-three OBJ
servatories found in Eastern Asia, the other six
being owned by England, France and Corea
There are seventeen meteorological Observa-
tories in Japan. Of these fifteen are owned by
the government and two by private persons.
Through a special arrangement made with for
eign countries these observatories are allowed
to have three free Geographic communications
each day with every other observatory in the
world This privilege is enjoyed alike by the
government and the private Observatories Now
fact that the great Chinese Empire does not
there is one at Shanghai, owned by French
Annoy, both owned by Engishmen. BY main.
vatories the japanese weather bureau is able to
as all of them lie on the southern coast of China,
weather they have in the interior of China ex-
observntorieS, of which one is in charge of the
japanese government, and the other two are
under European officials in the Corean custom
house.
A NUMBER of interesting experiments have
just been made with such electrical machines as
arc employed in industries, with a view Of deter
mining under what conditions they may become
dangerous says a writer in the London Times
These have been conducted by NJ D'Arsonval
who has already established the fact that what
is truly dangerous where these machines are